Government declares a state of emergency. Israeli forces kill a palestinian man wanted for the shooting death of a. Tree. A council that can agree to take action. An escalating war of words between the u. S. And russia over suspected Chemical Attacks in syria. And our stock markets around the world have been plunging this tuesday asian markets have crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street the dow jones dropped more than a thousand points on monday or more than four and a half percent that was the biggest fall in percentage terms since august twenty seventh in response japans benchmark nikkei closed down four point seven three percent fall into its lowest number since october last year while hong kongs benchmark hang seng index lost almost five percent in its morning session putting it on track for the biggest drop since twenty fifteen or china correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing. Well the markets here in asia really took the lead from wall street the markets in chan zen and shanghai were both down around about two percent in morning Trading Hong Kong did a lot worse though down by more than five percent the reason for that is that in hong kong a lot of International Companies trade on that index and a lot of those companies are exposed to the United States whereas companies here the traders on the markets in shanghai and then tend to be Domestic Companies that dont trade internationally we havent seen the falls that we saw of course in two thousand and fifteen when the markets here in china plunged by between five and seven percent on that occasion we did see panic we did see anger and we did see Government Intervention now Chinese People have very few places to invest their money its either property or shares and neither have been doing particularly well in recent months but overall Chinese People seem to feel their economy is doing ok thats what a columnist tell you in state controlled media and there is a sense that perhaps g. D. P. Is in fact a little bit higher than the government been hoping for and well get confirmation of what chinas g. D. P. Forecast will be in the year ahead when Chinas Parliament the National Peoples congress convenes in just a few weeks time a chinese leaders will be hoping that the market volatility were seeing right now will be over by then. Brown in beijing lets speak now to sit here a tech a sheet who is a professor of c. School of management and information at japans a university of shes a walker he joins us now via skype thanks for being with us so many things going on here. Well actually in japan what were seeing is obviously reaction to other markets in us and of course in europe and with the acceleration of the yen obviously theres been a sole off the japanese export whod been leading the market so there is negativity but at the same time people were expecting this correction to take place so i dont think at this moment there is a crisis feeling that is amongst the japanese investors at this moment well if this gets to my next question which im sure a lot of people want to know one of the also too is is this is this likely to continue can we expect further pain or is this as you are suggesting just a one off well i would say its one off but i dont think its going to prolong or its going to be a serious previous crash is the reason for it being is that this is back them very good earnings in the States Europe and in japan so from that point of view we can see that its not as bubbly as it was in the past but that said the problem here is that this prolongs and if we see a downturn in the United States in europe obviously what will happen is that there will be a lot of money flowing in safe haven money into the yen which basically accelerates the yen and obviously that would result in a very bad earnings forecast for japanese exporters that would be a very big negative scenario for the japanese authorities and how how connected is this to to the larger. Economy i mean im talking about Global Economy because the concern in the u. S. We were told from investors is that its because of concerns over inflation and a likely. Interest rate rise in the government there saying nothing to worry about here the fundamentals of the economy affine is that well whats your take on that. Well i think you know to say simply fundamentals are flying so everything is fine is a little bit too optimistic we all know that the synthetic moves can actually come into reality lets face it we know that correction was due but at the same time if this leads to the negative connotation by the investors if this prolongs and certainly its going to be negative its not going to be any plus or anything and at the same time i think the authorities are totally forgetting about the Political Risk or geoPolitical Risk totally ignored it in the past six months or so that is emerging not only in the states but also in europe and your Political Risk in asian region as well we should mark it had not inherited so i think those factors are also the negativity that will be watched very closely from here on words certainly well get to speak with us again a taxi to join us there from cheers a walk now Opposition Leader and two Supreme Court judges in the mold teams have been arrested for president my moon gayoom who is allied himself with the opposition was detained at his home while the chief justice and a judge were also arrested president has declared a fifteen day state of emergency in the military is in charge of the parliament south of in jeddah it has more. Just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent Opposition Leader to the countrys main jail on a Remote Island the. Moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says its politically motivated. His family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. In this police came to arrest me im going with them i dont even know why they are arresting me ive done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people of multipath to be strong and stand with us we will win. With arrested but two judges for the deepening the political crisis. It all began on thursday when the Supreme Court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed just also reinstated twelve m. P. s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president of the yemeni refused to comply with the ruling and celebrations turned into protests. Yeah i mean also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the Parliament Building for an indefinite period. By three. And this is. In addition to the two judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the Supreme Court the court says police didnt have enough evidence to arrest the judicial executive president who happens to be the half brother of the arrested leader to be you came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after Moldavian Police and overthrew president Mohamed Nasheed but in the shaky democracy president i mean has also faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt that the Supreme Court was expected to do therapy on a petition to impeach you i mean Opposition Leaders allege the president s noir lists made it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. For now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the job there. Israeli army says its killed a palestinian man who was wanted over the death of a settler last month the army shot that twenty one year old. In jenin in the occupied west bank was accused of killing rabbi. In an illegal israeli outpost on general knife two other palestinians were killed and raised during the manhunt a live now to him and khan whos in our west Jerusalem Bureau so in rome what more do we know about this. Well we know that the raid took place in the very early hours all the Tuesday Morning while i witnesses are telling us is that at least seventy jeeps and two bulldozers went in to young moon there was a live shooting life shooting going on this is very confusing situation as to exactly when the man who is wanted for the killing of the settler rabbi was actually shot but we are hearing there are still Israeli Forces in the area that there are all clashes taking place as these very forces withdrawing now when all of this started to take place in the early hours as i say all Tuesday Morning we are seeing a lot of take gas being used and also were hearing about a number of Palestinian People being injured in those at least one with a stun grenade and several with take gas are very much the operation is ongoing but this is been operation this not just happening overnight on Tuesday Morning but its been going on now since january ninth when the settler rabbi was allegedly killed by a with zero now on january seventeenth they thought these arrays thought that theyd killed off which are are they announce that they go to turned out to be a case of mistaken identity almost every night villages within the gene area been subject to israeli raids houses have been demolished as theyve been searching for this man and i have to say this is a case the killing of the rabbit that recall the imagination all of the israeli people particularly the hard right who wanted revenge they wanted that man killed in revenge for the killing of the secular rabbi also what president promises or even when that yahoo did on monday it was announced that the settlements that the outpost that the rabbi came from was to become illegal under israeli law now clearly all of the settlements all illegal under International Law but he said that where they were. And to legalize this outpost turn it into yet another settlement in the west bank so they could protect the residents that the Israeli Security forces as i say have confirmed the death squads are all but the palestinians havent been given the body of him yet and neither the man that was killed on january seventeenth in iran thanks for that remark called life force in western russia now weve got a weather check next and then three hong kong activists heading back to coal to hear the outcome of their final appeals process. Well over the day i was women in the u. K. Celebrate the suffragettes and they have roic efforts to get the vote one hundred years ago when we come back. The a. Hello there weve seen some heavy snow over moscow recently weve seen so much snow that its actually brought down over two thousand trees and that in turn has brought down some power lines as well and its also caused a fair amount of disruption now on the ground there around fifty centimeters of snow thats just lying there at the moment now fortunately it looks like the worst is over the system responsible for all that wintry weather its gradually pulling away towards the northeast but behind it its going to tell a good deal cooler so the maximum temperature on tuesday were just looking at minus ten so a very cold day here still the end of the snow over europe though still for the southwestern parts there this circulation here has gradually edging its way across parts of france and across the alps as well still more wintry weather out of that and further south where its a little bit too mild to see snow well be seeing heavy rain there work its way across italy and eventually across the other side of the adriatic as well now some of the unsettled weather over europe has also been spilling into the northern parts of africa and we still got some showers over there as we head through the next few days and were also seeing some rather sharp outbreaks of rain of of parts of our area morocco and in morocco over the mountains of course very cold here so were expecting some of that to turn to snow robots will get to around twelve degrees. The in. Again youre watching aljazeera mind of our top stories this hour stock markets around the world have been plunging this tuesday asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street. Political crisis in the maldives is deepening after the arrest of an Opposition Leader and two Supremes Court judges thats just hours after state of emergency was declared. The Israeli Army Says its killed Palestinian Leader ahmed and just are in the occupied west bank city of jeannine was wanted over the death of a settler last month. So weve been reporting on the current turmoil in the asian markets which is going on twenty years after a much bigger disaster the Asian Financial crisis that began with the collapse of thailands currency the botton spread across east asia and one of the contributing factors was high public debt in the affected countries including allow us now there are similar warnings about governments in the region borrowing too much money when he reports from the capital the antenna. The coffee industry in laos is one of the Fastest Growing in asia its output is still small compared with regional leaders like vietnam and indonesia but fuelled by increasing demand from neighboring china production grew by more than eight percent last year bro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities he must have financing but despite it being one of the few lao export products is no sign the government is willing to help. On projects on hydropower on mining on tory right no small are not enough supporters. Indeed the government has big plans to shake off the tag of one of asias poorest countries it wants to graduate from the United Nations least developed country status in the next twelve years and its turned to china to help fund big projects like this Economic Zone just outside the capital. Which is being built in anticipation of the city expanding quickly and a six billion dollar high speed train line that are run from southern china. But the amount of money the lao government is borrowing for the projects is causing concern. Public debt is estimated at around sixty eight percent of g. D. P. And almost half of the money is being borrowed from one source china. Financial sources. To be risky because. This country exposed through this business i created. The lao government says big investment is vital if its to improve the livelihood of its people one priority is health care which like many aspects of laos society has fallen into disrepair through poor governance and neglect the main hospital in the capital was built by the french in one thousand nine hundred three and as head few improvements since but as part of the Governments Health care reforms work will soon begin on a new hospital to be built on the same size built with chinese money wayne hay aljazeera. Un Security Council meeting that was supposed to can damage the alleged use of chlorine gas in syria has failed to agree on a statement the u. S. Blames russia for blocking it from the u. N. Heres our diplomatic editor dames base the attack was brazen and blatant at least eleven people were treated after an airstrike in syria chlorine was probably used this the latest in a series of what seemed to have been Chemical Attacks it led to a war of words in the Security Council a meeting you were not supposed to see this regular monthly session on the issue is usually held behind closed doors but an angry Us Ambassador demanded it was made public nikki haley condemned russia for not even agreeing to a press statement on the latest attacks if we cant even take the first step of a stab accountability for chemical weapons use we have to seriously ask ourselves why we are here. Russia which has used its veto to avoid action on this issue was strongly criticized by ambassador hayley and by her french and british colleagues its some bastard of vaseline a benzema hit back for which you didnt statements by these representatives as always contain very little truth mixed with mountains of lies that will do your prison. Where is the presumption of innocence prior to any investigation you are accusing the socalled regime quote unquote. With that point here appeared to ignore clear facts in twenty fifteen the un Security Council unanimously decided to create a joint investigative mechanism or jim to work out exactly who was guilty of chemical weapons use it concluded that in four cases the Assad Government was responsible for using chemical weapons though the soon afterwards russia used its veto to stop the renewal of the gym leaving the Security Council powerless does it just not highlight the importance of the Security Council i think you are very right with the fact that these the use of chemical weapons continues time and again in syria is a c